By Amy Renner
Viva Riva!
87% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 60 reviews
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.
The Last Lions
87% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 38 reviews
Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.
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Submarine
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 156 reviews
A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.
In Darkness
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 113 reviews
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a sewer worker and petty thief begin sheltering Jews in underground tunnels for profit.
Carancho
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews
This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.
A Screaming Man
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 reviews
Adam, a former swimming champion in his sixties, is a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel, leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile the country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government and the authorities demand the people contribute to the "war effort" with money or volunteers old enough to fight. Adam is constantly harassed for his contribution, but he is penniless. In a moment of weakness, Adam makes a decision that he will forever regret.
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews
Follows Earth Liberation Front group member Daniel McGowan, who in December 2005, was arrested by Federal agents and faced life in prison.
Certified Copy
89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 135 reviews
A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband.
The Trip
89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 108 reviews
Steve Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Rob Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 100 reviews
A dying old man choses to spend his last days with his loved ones in the countryside. The ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long-lost son returns home in a non-human form.
Armadillo
89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 54 reviews
In February 2009, documentary filmmaker Janus Metz accompanied a group of Danish soldiers at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions.
Bridesmaids
90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 293 reviews
When Annie (Kristen Wiig), a simple Midwestern girl is asked to be her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor, she struggles to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every pre-wedding event.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 211 reviews
The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.
Attack the Block
90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 183 reviews
A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.
Winnie the Pooh
90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 131 reviews
This all-new hand-drawn animated movie reunites audiences with the philosophical "bear of very little brain" and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. "Well a tail is either there or it isn’t there," said Pooh. “And yours isn’t… there." Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny.
Buck
90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews
A living legend in the horse world, Buck Brannaman was the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer. For this true cowboy, horses are a mirror of the human soul. Reared by an abusive father, Buck eschews violence. By teaching people to communicate with horses through instinct, not punishment, he frees the spirit of the horse and its human comrade. Crisscrossing the world with Zenlike wisdom, Buck promulgates grace in the bond between man and horse.
Point Blank
91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 79 reviews
A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.
Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews
"This documentary focuses less on the music and more on the personality clashes and in-group tensions to great, compelling effect."